| Ane Brun – Do you remember? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is my favorite song at the moment. I like it because it contains that mix of sadness of an ending and the happy anticipation of a new beginning. It's a song I jog to. Reminds of circle of life, of old and new loves, of survival, of life above all. | |
| Frank Sinatra – Moon River Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song represents a very classic drama, that of people who leave home, which is typically a small place, to search for fame, fortune and happiness in bigger places, to never be able to return or ever feel at home anywhere. Holly herself is a tragic character, so beautiful and glamorous, surrounded by reach people and celebrities, drifting in and out of her life, always fascinated with her, never loving her. In the book she actually doesn't end up with the poor writer, they are just friends and she sends him a postcard from buenos aires one day, so basically she keeps drifting in these strange circles to never find home again. | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Any thoughts on the choice of this song in Battlestar Galactica? For some reason it fits so well. There is certainly stg to this song that evokes an idea of layered perspectives and realities, blurred boundaries between right and wrong, and people being at the mercy of their circumstances. Like there is no right and wrong, just different perspectives. There is also a sense of 'chinatown', as in sometime you just don't know or should you bother to find out or worry about things, as the details of life are much too complex to understand. Maybe cylons are not that bad after all... |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Any thoughts on the choice of this song in Battlestar Galactica? For some reason it fits so well. There is certainly stg to this song that evokes an idea of layered perspectives and realities, blurred boundaries between right and wrong, and people being at the mercy of their circumstances. Like there is no right and wrong, just different perspectives. There is also a sense of 'chinatown', as in sometime you just don't know or should you bother to find out or worry about things, as the details of life are much too complex to understand. Maybe cylons are not that bad after all... | |
| David Wilcox – Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| maybe the boat is just a metaphor for one's ability to barely stay afloat and then when tempted to just slightly deep into destructive habits it sinks into them, completely loosing itself. | |
| Duncan Sheik – A Body Goes Down Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| see also "Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song" - same theme | |
| Tom Waits – Shore Leave Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| and how many separated lovers didn't think of the moon as the only one thing that they can at the same time, the one possible shared experience. | |
| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| there is an extra layer of subtlety where the interpretation is that ER was the woman maintaining the church living a lonely life side by side with F MK, both unable to break away from their loneliness. Ultimately no one was saved. | |
| Tom Waits – Downtown Train Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the story here I think is one of someone who lost the girl he loved and is hoping that he will run into her on a downtown train as one does when they are heartbroken. The Brooklyn girls are maybe just a metaphor for all the other women that seem ordinary in comparison and whose willingness to 'stay at the carnival' will never fill the void. |
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| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Two things: 1. Graceland appears to me as a pretty clear metaphor for music itself with its healing and redemptive qualities, a land of grace. 2. The human trampoline is not sexual. The song says what it means: There is a girl in New York City Who calls herself the human trampoline And sometimes when I'm falling, flying Or tumbling in turmoil I say Oh so this is what she means It is the feeling of 'falling, flying or tumbling in turmoil', it is anxiety and unrest, it is the 'mean reads' as Holly Golightly would say. Maybe she is the symbolic 'girl in New York City'. |
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